Upcoming Dates & Themes
October 2 – Back Door Of The Heart
October 9 – Explore The 4 Deep Core
October 16 – Somatic Movement + Yin Holds: Legs & Hips
October 23 – Somatic Movement + Yin Holds: Arms & Shoulders
November 6 – Body Prayer – Lower Body
November 13 – Body Prayer – Upper Body
November 27 – Breathe Out The Bird
December 4 – Intuitive Core Play
December 11 – Stable, Fluid Spine
December 18 – Full Body Relaxation & Yoga Nidra
16:00–17:15 Dublin Time. Click on the calendar dates you choose to register.
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The Space of Grace - Where Body Softens & Breath Deepens
Our society is taught to admire intellect over intuition – to respect doing more than being – to value the material above the natural – to focus on consumption instead of preservation – to expect expansion without contraction – and to pursue the scientific before the spiritual. What about finding a state that balances these seemingly opposing forces? Somatic Yoga can bring you into the Space of Grace where you remember that you are neither one or the other of these complimentary opposites. You are simply resting in your natural state of being. The places of sticky resistance become the spaces of full body freedom. Emotional regulation comes in letting feelings surface as sensations in the body. Somatic Yoga helps you to feel and release the tension of opposites and recognize that your body is here to support you in everything you do. The non-dualism of knowing you are a cosmic divine creation in human form.
The body as Soma
“Soma” is the Greek word meaning “living body”. Viewed from the outside, a human being is a body with a certain shape and size. However, when a human being looks at him/herself from the inside, he/she is aware of feelings, movements, sensations and intentions – a very different fuller being. What an individual sees from his/her first person, living, sensing, internalize view is a Soma. To yourself you are a Soma. To another, you are a body.
A Breath Centered Practice That Explores Pandiculation
You learn about yourself through motion. Movement is a result of the brain and nervous system communicating with the muscles. Your nervous system is also heavily influenced by the way you breathe. Somatic Yoga beautifully entwines a type of movement called pandiculation with breath. Neurologically, pandiculation is when you contract into tension that is already present, slowly lengthen through it and completely release. It is a biological function in the body that resets muscle length at the sensory motor level. Like our pets, we pandiculate involuntarily every time we yawn. If you have animals, you have undoubtedly seen them pandiculate time and time again when they get up after any period of inactivity.
Listen To The Whisper Of Sensation In Your Body
In Somatic Yoga, the natural spaces of contraction, expansion and relaxation within the cycles of breath are appreciated as your most innate pandiculation. By synchronizing your instinctual necessity to breathe with physical pandiculation of the muscles, we can self-regulate the nervous system. When you close your eyes and enter the somatic space, you find sensation. All you are asked to do is notice the sensations with curiously and kindness. Being mindfully aware of gentle movement and breath can immediately benefit all of the systems and subtle layers of the body.